Microsoft's Office for iOS, Android: Not until fall 2014?

AllAboutMicrosoft posted a story that an alleged roadmap for Microsoft's two-year wave of coming Office updates implies Office for iOS and Android may be further away than many industry watchers thought.

A source of mine shared what appears to me to be a real roadmap for Gemini.

It kicks off with "Gemini wave 1.0," which includes the "Blue" Metro-Style/Windows Store complements to the core set of Office products -- namely, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. From what I've heard previously, these four apps will be more touch-centric and will work on Windows 8 and Windows RT. They will supplement, not replace, the desktop/Win32 versions of these apps that already exist. These apps will be made available to customers by October 2013, according to the purported roadmap.

The 1.5 wave of the Gemini updates is set for April 2014, the roadmap indicates. This is when the Office team will deliver the next version of Mac Office and an update to Office for Windows Phone. April 2014 also is listed as when Microsoft plans to make Office customized for LSX hardware. LSX is "large screen experience," i.e., Perceptive Pixel large-screen, multitouch systems.